Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.
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Allan Lokos
Patience is a power unto itself.
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Robyn Wideman
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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Anne Lamott
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will...
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Anne Lamott
The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Ellen Gilchrist
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced,...
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness...
